Folding wagon-brake



No. 608,802. Patented Aug. 9, I898. J. SMOCK.

FOLDING WAGON BRAKE.

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FOLDING WAGON-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,802, dated August 9, 1898.

Application filed April 2, 1898. Serial No. 6'76 ,175. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it mag concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES SMooK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spencer, in the county of Owen and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Wagon-Brakes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to folding Wagonbrakes so arranged that the brake-shoe will fold under the body of the wagon out of the way, so the mud from the wheel will not gather on the shoe and so the shoe will be under the body of the wagon out of the way in loading or unloading. With the common brake now in use the brake-shoe is so near the wheel that mud from the wheel drops between the shoe and wheel until the space between the wheel and the shoe becomes filled and there is friction on the wheel when not desired, and with the common brake when loading or unloading the brake is in the way, and when rolling stone or other heavy articles out of the wagon they often drop on the brakeshoe and break same or break the frame or hounds of the wagon, while with my improved folding brake the brake-shoe is folded under the bed of the wagon entirely out of the way;

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top View of the rear portion of the wagon with my improved folding brake attached and shows the brake-shoes folded up from the wheel in its unlocked position. Fig. 2 is a top view of the rear portion of the wagon with my improved folding brake attached and shows the brake applied to the wheels in its locked position. Fig. 3 shows a sectional view taken on the line A A in Fig. 1, showing how the iron shoe 7 is secured to the beam 8. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 13 B in Fig. 1, showing the roller 19 held between the plates 11. Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line D D in Fig. 1, showing the roller 20 held between the plates 11. Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on the line E E in Fig. 1, showing the folding plates 9 secured to the beam 8 and the brake 10. Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken on the line C O in Fig. 1, showing how the beam 8 is connected to the lever 18.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

'7 designates an iron shoe fitted on the beam 8.

'8 designates a sliding beam connected to the brake-beams by folding plates 9, which are connected to the lever 18 by a common rod 16, such as are now in use for that purpose, as shown in Fig. 7.

9 designates folding plates attached at one end with bolts to the beam 8 and at the other end secured to the brake-beam by bolts.

10 designates the brake-beams.

11 designates plates of iron bolted at either end, between which slide the beam 8 and the brake-beams 1O.

12 designates a beam bolted to the frame or hounds of the wagon, to which are secured the plates 11.

13 designates a beam similar to 12, also bolted to the frame of the wagon, to which the plates 11 are bolted.

14: designates the frame or hounds of the wagon, to which the brake is bolted, as above stated.

16 designates the coupling-rod between the beam 8 and the lever 18. i

17 designates the bar to which the couplingrod is secured.

18 designates the lever by which the brake is operated.

19 designates a roller secured between the plates 11, against which the brake-beams 1O slide when being folded or unfolded. 20 designates a similar roller on the opposite side of the brake-beam 10, against which the brakebeam rubs when being folded or unfolded.

21 designates the brake-shoe fitted on the brake-beam 10.

The operation of my improved folding brake is as follows: Then the lever 18 is pulled forward, the rod 16 is drawn backward and pulls with it the beam 8, which pushes the folding plates backward, which forces the brake-beam 10 to slide toward the wheel, and when the brake-shoe 21 is opposite the wheel the beam 8 will have traveled backward until the shoes 7 strike the brake-beam 10 and force it backward, pressing the brake-shoe 21 against the wheel, as shown in Fig. 2. When the lever 18 is reversed, the pressure is removed and the beam 8 and shoes 7 are first withdrawn from against the brake 10, and then the brake 10 is withdrawn and and the brake-shoes 21 substantially as described.

2. In a folding Wagon-brake the combination of the shoes 7, the sliding beam 8, the connecting-rod 16, the bar 17, and the lever 18, substantially as described.

3. A folding Wagon-brake having the two brake-beams 10, connected by the folding plates 9 and secured to the sliding beam 8, substantially as shown and described.

4. A folding wagon-brake having the brakebeam in two pieces and so arranged that it 20 will slide under the wagon when not in use substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses JAMES SMOOK.

Witnesses:

J. M. STEWART, DAVID JARVIS. 

